6 Movies Starring Peter Vaughan

Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1971-12-22

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA, UK

Runtime:

113 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (42664 Reviews)

Director:

Sam Peckinpah

Cast:

Writer:

David Zelag Goodman (screenplay)

Sam Peckinpah (screenplay)

Gordon Williams (novel)

Fullplot:

Upon moving to Britain to get away from American violence, astrophysicist David Sumner and his wife Amy are bullied and taken advantage of by the locals hired to do construction. When David finally takes a stand it escalates quickly into a bloody battle as the locals assault his house.

Symptoms

Symptoms

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-06-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, Belgium

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (198 Reviews)

Genres:

Horror

Cast:

Writer:

Josè Ramèn Larraz (screenplay)

Stanley Miller (screenplay)

Thomas Owen (story)

Fullplot:

A young woman is invited by her girlfriend, who lives in an English country mansion, to stay there with her. The estate, however, isn't quite what it seems--and neither is the friend who issued the invitation.

Zulu Dawn

Zulu Dawn

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-05-15

Languages:

English, Zulu

Countries:

USA, South Africa, Netherlands, UK

Runtime:

98 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (4565 Reviews)

Director:

Douglas Hickox

Cast:

Writer:

Cy Endfield (original story and scenario)

Cy Endfield (screenplay)

Anthony Story (screenplay)

Fullplot:

In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. To that end, the British present King Cetshwayo with an impossible ultimatum to provoke a war they are sure they can win easily with their rifles and artillery against native spears. However, that war proves more difficult than the arrogant British commander, Lord Chelmsford, expects as his overburdened army fruitlessly searches for the elusive enemy. However, in the shadow of a hill called Isandlwana, the overconfident British army learns to its sorrow just how badly they have underestimated the tactical skill and might of the Zulu nation.

Fatherland

Fatherland

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1994-11-26

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (4250 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Harris (novel)

Stanley Weiser (teleplay)

Ron Hutchinson (teleplay)

Fullplot:

Fictional historical account of what might have happened if Adolf Hitler had won the Second World War. Germany has corralled all European countries into a single state called Germania, and continues fighting against the Soviet Union. It is now 1964 and Germany's war crimes against the Jews have so far been kept a secret. Germany believes that an alliance with the United States would finally beat the Soviet war machine. As his 75th birthday approaches, Hitler wants to talk peace with President Joseph Kennedy. An SS homicide detective and an American journalist stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide; evidence that could destroy the peace process with America and evidence that Nazi and SS leaders will stop at nothing to keep hidden.

An Ideal Husband

An Ideal Husband

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1999-06-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (12191 Reviews)

Director:

Oliver Parker

Cast:

Writer:

Oscar Wilde (play)

Oliver Parker (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

The Mother

The Mother

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-06-18

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (3427 Reviews)

Director:

Roger Michell

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Toots and May's marriage is one of Toots being dependent on his wife. Shortly after Toots and May arrive in London to visit with their grown children Bobby and Paula and their respective children, Toots falls ill and dies. Toots' death brings to the surface the underlying strain that has always existed between May and both of her two children, and the unhappy lives they have all led. Now specifically with Paula, May is disapproving of her relationship with a construction worker named Darren. Not only does May think his occupation makes him beneath Paula, he's also a married man. Darren is in an unsatisfying marriage but doesn't want to leave it if only because of his son. Even after May gets to know and like Darren, she still encourages Paula to break up with him. The issue is is that May herself has fallen in love with Darren, the two who begin a sexual relationship. What will ultimately happen between May and Darren also depends on Darren, who is floundering in his own life and doesn't really know what he wants or even if he did how to get it. What will happen may also depend on Paula if she finds out what's going on.

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